HDcctv Alliance

Two key problems for megapixel cameras are (1) their substantially increased cost relative to analog cameras and (2) the complexity of using IP.

Sam Pfeifle and Dan Gelinas talk about the HDcctv Alliance, why it might offer attractive products to installers, and how you can now do "IP surveillance" and megapixel quality with an essentially analog backbone.

A new industry group officially launched Tuesday with a proposed standard for closed-circuit high-definition TV for video surveillance, and end-users applauded the effort to promote interoperability in a new generation of monitoring gear.

HDcctv - the move to non-IP megapixel - is gaining an immense amount of media attention. However, how strong will it be against IP, megapixel and Hybrid DVRs?

Details are beginning to emerge allowing us to more carefully analyze this. The HDcctv alliance has released their draft technical specification and begun to share technical and operational details on the specification and the solution.

The term alone may be a new one for video surveillance installers, allowed Todd Rockoff, but the concepts and technology ought to be very familiar. Thus, the challenges for the HDCCTV Alliance executive chairman are twofold: First, get people to understand what HDCCTV is; second, get people to see why it’s better than what they’re already installing.

A group of vendors goes public today with a proposed format for transmitting uncompressed high-definition video feeds over existing cabling or twisted pair infrastructure. Under the proposed architecture, further compression and encoding is not introduced until the signal reaches the DVR.